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...Oscar Hijuelos became the first Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel. The Mambo kings Play Songs of Love. Born in New York City to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos attended City College where his memos included Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag. Hijuelos held a low-level job with a mass transit advertising agency before quitting in 1980, when his first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published. He spoke recently with The Crimson about his new novel. The fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien...
Lacking suspense and development, American Buffalo delivers few memorable moments. Instead, the vacuousness the play depicts merely imparts to the audience a low-level malaise. It ends with Bobby sheepishly saying "I'm sorry," which is also his opening line, and the audience is no more enlightened than it was at the beginning...
Though barely of drinking age, Rosenfeld is a veteran hacker. He says he invaded his first computer -- a low-level NASA system -- at age 15 as a member of a cyberpunk gang called Force Hackers. Before long, he was devising electronic schemes to swipe cash from Western Union, phone service from the Baby Bells and valuable credit information wherever it could be found. "We once pulled the credit reports of a whole town in Oregon," Storm Shadow recalls...
...records of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's youthful travels to Oslo and London -- even though such requests routinely take many months to process. Last week department spokesman Richard Boucher reversed himself, admitting that deviating from standard procedure was "clearly a mistake." But he blamed it on several unidentified "low-level people" and denied that political pressure had anything to do with the requests. That claim would be more convincing had it not followed another incident involving Clinton's State Department records. Two weeks ago, the Bush campaign spread rumors about alleged deletions from the Governor's passport file. An investigation...
...Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...